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Watson Discovery

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An API to download the training data applied by WDS

A way to download the training data that has been applied instead of just downloading all the training provided as input to the system ? This is because we need to provide the client with the list of all training that has actually been applied to ...
almost 6 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Not under consideration

IBM to enhance the Filters for Sharepoint connector so that besides specifying which file extensions to crawl (viz. .aspx pages) one should be able to specify exclude ListItemCollection pages

This enhancement will allow more fine grained control over which items to crwal using Watson Discovery v2 Sharepoint connector. For one use case, there are 11362 ListItemCollection type .aspx pages and 1000 real .aspcx pages. Currently Sharepoint ...
8 months ago in Watson Discovery 1 Not under consideration

Watson Discovery query need support for Field relevany boosting / Field relevancy weighing

BMC Customer's are requesting that Watson Discovery query should allow specifyingfield relevancy boosting / field relevancy weighing when searching documents - typically for gettingmatching passages. In the absence of this Feature, BMC Customer's ...
over 1 year ago in Watson Discovery 1 Not under consideration

Smart Document Understanding to produce a readable PDF from original scanned PDF

In solutions where text archives are digitized to become searchable in Watson Discovery, Smart Document Understanding is a promising new feature. However, it does not by side effect produce a searchable (text-based) PDF when OCRing a scanned PDF. ...
about 4 years ago in Watson Discovery 1 Planned for future release

WDS highlights should honour Advanced Search quotes

During Project Daisey development, we've come across the inconsistency between highlights returned by WDS and the query. Even if the WDS Query language query contains a compound term (which project daisey uses very frequently for financial terms...
almost 5 years ago in Watson Discovery 2 Not under consideration

Ability to do semantic search

Currently first level search in WDS is based on term overlap which can be improved with relevancy training. The term overlap can be improved with query expansion. Now for a query on "car", customer also wants to retrieve documents on "Vehicle", "M...
almost 6 years ago in Watson Discovery 3 Not under consideration

Standard WDS crawler for websites

The standard WDS crawler supports filesystem, sharepoint and databases. Since one of the few document types that WDS can ingest is HTML, it would make sense to have the standard crawler also support HTTP and HTTPS accessible websites. https://bigb...
about 6 years ago in Watson Discovery 1 Functionality already exists

Service for Users to Create Japanese Morpheme Dictionary/Japanese Stop-words Dictionary for Every Account at Any Time.

Japanese morphological analysis seems very difficult because we write the document in Japanese without spaces(e.g. 私の友達は食べることが大好きです。).That’s why my idea is to create Japanese morpheme dictionary/Japanese stop-words dictionary for every account at ...
about 6 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Not under consideration

Extend document removal API to work with removal queries

There have been several issues discovered when working with discovery and very dynamic date / agile prototyping. It is not possible (currently) to remove multiple documents, just 1 at a time. Often in the beginning of a project the data is ingeste...
over 6 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Not under consideration

Improve visualization of Entity Roles, Entity Subtypes, Mention Types, and Mention Classes

When annotating a role or subtype, there is no visual cue for the Entity Role, the Entity SubType, the Mention Type, or the Mention Class. There could perhaps be colored icons appearing below the annotation to display this
over 6 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Not under consideration